[systemd-devel] howto handle one time shutdown programs

[Reindl Harald]

Am 26.06.2015 um 09:31 schrieb Andrei Borzenkov:
>> How is that different from the user executing:
>>
>> systemctl start your.service
>> systemctl stop your.service
>> systemctl start your.service
>>
>> without reboot?
>>
>
> Those initscripts I am aware of avoided this issue by not stopping
> anything on restart

then it is not a restart and that initscript is broken - period

> This made it possible to do "service foo restart"
> without losing its state. Converting such services to systemd unit
> breaks things.
>
> Such restarts happen without user explicit intervention e.g. during
> package updates.

then file a bugreport at your distribution for the apckage and explain 
why the rpm-scripts are doing only harm and should at least be removed 
from package xyz or just rebuild that package without the rpm-scripts at 
your own, did that for a ton of server packages on Fedora because the 
lack of a systemwide "don#t restart anything until a said so" option

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